Zion National Park Utah-1968: Slow Tilt Up the Sheer Green-Hung Walls of a Narrow River Gorge

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Year1968
Decade1960s
LocationZion National Park, Utah, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1968 · Zion National Park, Utah, United States

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What is in this clip

canyon scale
national park travel
family road trip
American Southwest landscape
geology
wilderness
vacation memory

Shot type: wide
Camera: tilt · handheld · low angle, looking up
Setting: outdoor · narrow river gorge with sheer rock walls and vegetation
Time and weather: daytime · summer · bright, clear to hazy
Lighting: shaded canyon floor with a bright overexposed sky above
People: 0 · No people are visible.
Landmarks: Zion Narrows
Objects: rock wall · trees · shrubs · hanging plants · riverbed · sky
Colors: green · grey · tan · reddish brown · cream
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Medium

Moments in the footage

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Green trees and shrubs stand at the foot of a layered rock wall, with a pale strip of riverbed at the bottom edge.
The camera begins tilting upward along the cliff, a dark plant-covered wall filling the right side.
The far wall turns warm and reddish as the gap of sky widens.
The shot ends on a bright, overexposed wedge of sky between the two walls.

Slow Tilt Up the Sheer Green-Hung Walls of a Narrow... — Clip Details

Zion National Park, Utah, circa 1968 home movie footage of a narrow river gorge near the start of the Narrows. The shot opens low on green trees and shrubs at the foot of a layered, pale grey and tan rock wall, with a pale strip of riverbed at the bottom edge. The handheld camera then tilts slowly upward past a dark, plant-covered wall on the right. It ends on warm reddish rock and a bright, overexposed wedge of sky between the two walls. Focus is soft throughout.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000008

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People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1968 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Zion National Park, Utah, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Answers requests for 1960s amateur footage of Utah canyon scenery, for national park history, road-trip and Southwest landscape sequences.
Period detail: No vehicles, clothing or signs appear; the saturated greens and warm rock tones may show a 1960s colour reversal stock, and the date rests on the rest of the trip.
Home-movie behavior: A visitor stands on the canyon floor and tilts the camera up to take in the height of the walls, the way a traveller looks up on arrival.
What appears in frame: Green trees and shrubs at the base, a layered grey and tan cliff, a dark plant-covered wall on the right, reddish upper rock, a pale strip of riverbed and a bright wedge of sky.
Film character: Soft focus, saturated greens, a cream-white blown sky, dark vignetted corners and a slightly unsteady handheld tilt give it a clear small-gauge home-movie texture.
Edit role: Works as a short scenic insert or upward transition, and as a memory beat between the trailhead sign and the river-wading shots.
Historical context: The shot shows a Zion-area gorge as a family visitor filmed it on a Southwest road trip, with no people, railings or built features in the frame.
Research note: No people, logos or artwork are visible; the place is inferred from the preceding trailhead sign and not from a sign in this shot, and copyright in the film is separate from any location permissions.
Research search match: Zion Narrows home movie, 1960s Utah canyon walls, vintage national park tilt up shot, amateur film of a narrow river gorge, Southwest road trip scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the Temple of Sinawava sign and the two women wading the Virgin River from this reel, then the warm-lit sandstone peaks, then other 1960s Utah canyon footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Trees and shrubs at the base of a layered canyon wall in a narrow gorge at Zion National Park, Utah, circa 1968, in soft-focus home movie film. — The shot opens low in the gorge, with green trees below a layered rock wall. Zion National Park, Utah, circa 1968.
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A bright gap of sky opens between a layered rock face and a dark vegetated cliff in a narrow gorge at Zion National Park, Utah, circa 1968. — As the camera starts to tilt, a bright gap of sky appears between the two walls of the gorge.
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Mid-tilt view up a reddish layered cliff beside a plant-hung wall in a narrow Zion National Park gorge, Utah, circa 1968 home movie. — Midway through the tilt the far wall turns warmer and redder, and the plant-hung cliff on the right stays in shadow.
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Looking up from a narrow gorge at Zion National Park, Utah, circa 1968: reddish rock, a shaded green cliff and a bright overexposed slot of sky. — The shot ends looking up at a bright slot of sky between the reddish rock and the shaded, plant-covered wall.
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